This week we feature articles from Stephen O’Grady, and Dale Waldt.
Additional reading comes from Cobus Greyling, Cade Metz, M.G. Siegler, and The Economist.
News comes from Optimizely, Atlassian & The Browser Company, Adobe, and Neo4j.
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Opinion / Analysis
DocumentDB and the future of open source
Stephen O’Grady covers a lot of territory in this piece: the rise of PostgreSQL over MySQL, the recent turnover of Microsoft’s DocumentDB project to the Linus Foundation, and the related open source single-entity and multi-entity complications. (6 min)
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/09/02/documentdb/
How I stopped worrying & learned to love AI
XML Information Architect Dale Waldt describes his personal and professional journey from skeptic to advocate. What he learned about the use of AI in XML content projects will interest publishing, content, and information professionals. Don’t miss the appendix. (14 min)
https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Waldt01/BalisageVol30-Waldt01.html
More Reading
- Faith in god-like large language models is waning – good news for AI laggards? via The Economist (Free to read)
- The shadow AI economy via Cobus Greyling
- Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit with book authors via The New York Times (Gifted, free to read)
- A cynical read on anthropic’s book settlement via Spyglass via Spyglass
Content technology news
Optimizely debuts agent orchestration platform
Opal now gives marketing & digital teams access to a library of specialized agents, the ability to build their own agents, and a drag-and-drop interface to orchestrate workflows.
https://www.optimizely.com/company/press/ai-orchestration-platform/
Adobe releases AI agents for customer experience orchestration
AI agents & AEP Agent Orchestrator for customer experience help businesses build, deliver and optimize customer experiences and marketing campaigns.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/09/adobe-announces-general-availability-ai-agents
Neo4j launches Infinigraph
Infinigraph is a new distributed graph architecture for a scalable graph database for unified operational and analytical workloads at 100TB+ Scale.
https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-launches-infinigraph/
Atlassian to acquire The Browser Company
Atlassian to build an AI browser for knowledge workers with The Browser Company’s DIA browser, integrated and optimized for enterprise workflows.
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-the-browser-company ■ https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/your-tuesday-in-2030
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